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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Give the option to make an index "invisible" to DB2

Sometimes, when I have added and index, I have had some surprises in the optimizer using that index when it should not. I would like a quick way to make the index "invisible" to the optimizer and make it not eligible for access paths until I speci...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Lifecycle Manager Automatic Prompt Fill In

With the previous 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, the application would automatically fill in prompts so we didn't have to edit prompts for every report. That feature is missing in the Cognos Analytics version.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Please develop a tool to real time monitor BB1RMID

Dear DB2 for Z developers, Our critical banking client got to know there is a severe storage leak issue reported on the DB2 V12. It's addressed on the APAR PH45580 already. Meanwhile, however, the client still wants us to develop a tool which coul...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

All personal settings (incl. tile/list view setting welcomepage) should be stored in Content Store

In the recent section within the welcome page I personally like the list view more than the tile view. In some environments users experience problems since these personal settings return to it's original default state (the tile view) after restart...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Direct Driver for Presto DB Connectivity

Need Data Direct ODBC/JDBC Driver to connect to the Presto DB. Currently Presto DB Connectivity is certified using JDBC Driver with external Simba JDBC Presto Driver but not through internal/native Data Direct Drivers.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Controller Web to have all Controller Classic features

Controller Web 104.1 should have all of the features available through Controller classic. Every application is moving towards achieving a web foot print and HTML5 compatibility. Users are loosing confidence on Controller Classic as other vendors ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Provide the Advanced Drill Functionaility in the Interactive Viewer

By default the interactive viewer allows users to drill up and drill down on any projected items. Please provide the ability to restrict the drill up and drill down entirely and on an individual Query Item basis. This functionality used to be avai...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

As an editor i want to see which nodes are jumping to the node i'm working in

When working in complicated flows, where jump-to's are used to move the user laterally through a dialogue, we lose sight of which jump-to's are implemented. When updating or deleting a node we need to know when we shouldnt just check/update the ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Run Metrics Feature displays incorrect Results on CP4D

We should be able to find rows information when writing to Target Dataset stage on DataStage
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Disable User Accounts When Option Checked

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, a user account could be disabled by placing a check in the appropriate box within the user's advanced profile property sheet. This box, still exists but for whatever reason no longer works as one would exp...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted